S.A.D. Day

Single Awareness Day, comes every year around this time... some find it an excuse to be depressed. I don't. If all those with a special someone have an excuse to have fun, why not us who are single? So we've been planning it for a while. Here is what we did:
We made tie dye t-shirts with hearts and on the back put "I'm just not that into you" We all wore those, went to the movie "He's just not that into you" and then came back and had "Love Stinks" cake that made our teeth black. While we were in our festivities, my amazing friend, Isaac came over and brought me flowers! He's such a good guy! Anyways, here are some pictures from the day of funness:

Kiley, Kyndra, Christy, Cassie, Krystal, Brittney, Nat, Alicia

Kiley and Me

Brittney, Nat, Cassie, Kyndra, Christy
Alicia, Krystal, Kiley

We were singing and getting really into it...

Our Love Stinks cake... tehe he

The pretty flowers Isaac got me

Me and Isaac

Excitement

Well, in exactly 2 months from today, I will be a college graduate!!! I'm so excited, I just wish it was April already!! Here's an update on me:

School:
Graduate in 2 months :)
classes are going well
I'm learning a ton in my studio photography class. I've been talking to my professor and his wife and asking them all the questions I can possibly think of. I'm getting really excited to officially start my photo business. I've learned so much so far this semester about taking good photographs and everything... this class is going to improve my photography one million percent!!

Church:
The calling is going well. It's keeping me super busy but somehow I find the time. It amazes me how much I love these girls that I don't even know very well. I just sit in Relief Society and just feel so grateful that we have such wonderful girls!!
I'm also doing the student living program for the ward. I go to meetings once a week, learn what I can about the program and then try and teach it to all the girls. The program is a pattern of righteous living. Last week we talked about the principle of love. How it's important to communicate and not just stand back and watch people dive into sin. It's a really good program, and I'm learning a lot.

Life:
Life is good, and I'm sure it will keep getting better

Plans:
So, I plan to come home to Salt Lake the weekend of the 20th, the 27th, and then again in March for sure the weekend of the 20th, and then the first weekend in April.

Well, that's a brief run through of what's going on.... I'll try and post more stuff, but our internet is kind of off and on.

Super heroism

Last weekend was Krystal's and Tyler's birthday. We had a super hero themed party. everyone came dressed up as different super heroes... It was a lot of fun!! We did a photo scavenger hunt and then watched Iron Man and had cake. Here are some photos from all of the funness:



Super Krystal and Ty Fry



Brittney



Christy and her friend



Becca, Isaac, Krystal, Carly and Me




Isaac



Jake and Dallin



Russ



Russ and super swimmers



Super Krystal



Shawn, Adam and Eric



Krystal's Angels (Cassie, Kyndra, Kiley)



Alicia and I (Rags to Riches)


Super Krystal, Ty Fry, and Rags to Riches with a random person we ran into at Albertsons

Verdict

So I thought I was going to stay another semester and take the class. But then I woke up the other night around 1 am and couldn't sleep until 4 because I was worried about it, I guess. So I decided to pray about it, and talk to my photography professor.

Well, I'm coming home in April.

My Photo professor said that in the studio class I am taking now, I will learn a substantial amount more in portraiture than any other portrait photographer gets when they start out. He gave me some people to look up in Salt Lake and in Hawaii to learn from, and a few websites. His wife will be teaching the portrait part of the class and I will be talking to her about stuff as well. He said she has a book that she really likes and I will be getting that too.
My plan is to get with a few photographers in Salt Lake and intern or job shadow them until I go to Hawaii.

So that is the plan!

To Stay or Not to Stay... That is the question!

So there is a large possibility that I will stay in Rexburg until July. I am a photography major, I want to take photography classes that will help me be a better photographer. There is one that I have wanted to take since day one, but I had to take everything else first. This class is Portrait Photography. So today in my studio photography class, Bro. Brown was explaining very interesting things and then he said, I won't go into too much detail because you will learn this in the portrait class... that is the case with so many things!! From what I have heard, the portrait photo class is something I don't want to miss out on, especially because I want to do portrait photography for the rest of my life.
So, I am thinking very hard about staying another semester, taking the one class, and getting a job. What this means is that I won't have much time at home before I go to Hawaii. I'll have a week in April, and a few days in July... and some weekends when I decide to go down. So there you have it. I'll be figuring it out in the next couple of days, and I'll let you know.

Be Careful What You Pray For

I hear all the time Be careful what you wish for, but I say be careful what you pray for! The scriptures say Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you. And you would think after a lifetime of getting answers to prayers I would have learned by now, but I guess Heavenly Father has a way of getting you to ask for things that you need without you realizing it.
So, it's the beginning of a new semester, a new year. So I made a few goals. One of them was to grow spiritually. So I asked Heavenly Father to help me with that. So I guess I'm in for growing a lot spiritually because He called me as Relief Society President! I kind of knew it was coming last Sunday. I guess I just got that feeling, but I didn't want to believe it.
My first thoughts were WOW and are you sure? I feel a little inadequate to be a Relief Society President, but I guess there is something I need to learn, something big. I'm nervous and I just hope I can do a good job. I look at the relief society president from last semester and I am no where near as spiritual as she was, I guess I have a lot to learn.
Sorry for all the rambling. HELP!

Sleepover

Right before Christmas we had a little sleepover with Mark's and Scott's kids. Deegan conked out at the beginning, but the other 4 were little stinkers. They were just so cute I had to take pictures, now I wish I would of thought to take pictures of the stuff they did while I was sleeping.

I pumped up the air mattress, and so they jumped on it.







I tucked them in bed, started a movie and they calmed right down.. I thought they would be asleep in no time. I was tired and fell asleep for a minute and woke up to the sound of giggles. Conner had gotten into a chocolate covered pretzel and had it all over his face. The girls were playing in my mom's hair stuff and had their hair all pretty. I got them back in bed and they were settled down and I drifted off again and awoke to the sound of giggles. They had taken all of the books (and there are a lot of them) off of the shelves so they could read them... there were books everywhere! It was really funny. I just love those stinkers!